Was it good for you, ladies?

As I write this, thousands of women around Australia are in the postorgasmic glow of having seen the breathlessly anticipated SATC movie. The SMH tells us that cinemas have reported being “compeltely overwhelmed” by the demand for tickets, as though the high-quality Aussie meeja hadn’t already given the bloody thing enough free publicity. “We haven’t seen this level of online ticket sales before except for the Harry Potter movie,” enthused Greater Union cinemas promotional manager Melissa Kesby.

Like we needed any further proof society was on the brink of imploding into the vacuum of its own self-obsessed fatuousness.